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E. W. SCRIPPS
April1st to Dec. 1st, West Chester, Butler Co., Ohio .
Dec. 1st to April 1st, Miramar, San Diego Co., California ,I
:1. How is America going to feed Europe, when there is so little of foodstuffs
in this country that we are in danger of revolution on acoount of the hi~h cost <::>
of living?
. 2. How are we going to be able to send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to :Europe?
to send food and other material after them? when there are too few ships now to
carry material to Europe for the people Who are already there?
3. Do not reports made by Goethals and Denman. indioate that we oannot build ships
fast enough to make up for those destroyed by submarines, at the present rate?
4. Is it worth iJ!i.hile for this govermnent to expend money, time, and mental effort
in preparing a plan of European invasion at a time when such an invasion Oa.ml.ot be
prosecuted by a strong enough force of men and material to make it of ~ praotical
advantage in the war?
s. Is it not far better for this country to devote its Whole efforts to building
1X.P its military and rna teriaJ. strength to such a;n extent as to make it S80'tlre a.ga.ins t
attaok of any possible oombination of foreign powers?
6. Would not the inevitable result of the policy outlined in the last paragraph
be that, a.t the conclusion of the war, if Germany were suocessful in Europe, this
country could be, by submarine and other na.val strength, able to defeat Germany in
the same -way t'hat German.y threatens now to defeat England?
'7. Would not the moral effect of 0'Ul" being in such a mili tary condi tion be
sufficient to com.pel Gel'!!lany, even if she were successfUl in the war, to make terms
of peaoe in Europe aoceptable to ourselves?
S. Is there not real danger of revolt in this oountry, even during the midst of a
comparatively suocessful war on our part in the European field?
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Ohio University Libraries, E.W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http://bit.ly/scripps_mss117

E. W. SCRIPPS
April1st to Dec. 1st, West Chester, Butler Co., Ohio .
Dec. 1st to April 1st, Miramar, San Diego Co., California ,I
:1. How is America going to feed Europe, when there is so little of foodstuffs
in this country that we are in danger of revolution on acoount of the hi~h cost
of living?
. 2. How are we going to be able to send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to :Europe?
to send food and other material after them? when there are too few ships now to
carry material to Europe for the people Who are already there?
3. Do not reports made by Goethals and Denman. indioate that we oannot build ships
fast enough to make up for those destroyed by submarines, at the present rate?
4. Is it worth iJ!i.hile for this govermnent to expend money, time, and mental effort
in preparing a plan of European invasion at a time when such an invasion Oa.ml.ot be
prosecuted by a strong enough force of men and material to make it of ~ praotical
advantage in the war?
s. Is it not far better for this country to devote its Whole efforts to building
1X.P its military and rna teriaJ. strength to such a;n extent as to make it S80'tlre a.ga.ins t
attaok of any possible oombination of foreign powers?
6. Would not the inevitable result of the policy outlined in the last paragraph
be that, a.t the conclusion of the war, if Germany were suocessful in Europe, this
country could be, by submarine and other na.val strength, able to defeat Germany in
the same -way t'hat German.y threatens now to defeat England?
'7. Would not the moral effect of 0'Ul" being in such a mili tary condi tion be
sufficient to com.pel Gel'!!lany, even if she were successfUl in the war, to make terms
of peaoe in Europe aoceptable to ourselves?
S. Is there not real danger of revolt in this oountry, even during the midst of a
comparatively suocessful war on our part in the European field?
1.83
Ohio University Libraries, E.W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http://bit.ly/scripps_mss117